One of the very first side-long progressive rock epics, "The Plague of the Lighthouse Keepers", takes all the different styles known from the previous album and combines them into intense twenty minutes of emotional, fragile confessions and horrifying, desperate screams of arrangements and the two remaining tracks, including the hyper-ballad "Man-Erg", are at least as effective as the best moments of H to He....

Some of VdGG's greatest and scariest compositions, Pawn Hearts is a trio of thrillingly chromatic epics to accompany Hammill's swooping voice. Sax and organ carry the album, guitar is marginalized. The journey's the thing.